To put it mildly, the world is a mess.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You're trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren't very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.

Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.

I never dreamed about one day becoming Secretary of State. It's not that I was modest; it's just that I had never seen a Secretary of State in a skirt.

I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America.